Pinnacle PCTV installation problem
 

I have a Pinnacle PCTV on RedHat 9

It was detected by Kudzu when the first time I plus into PCI slot.
But I wonder why 'dmesg' command doesn't reveal anyting about this capture device.

I try 'cat /dev/video0' and I got several message about the card.
Then I type 'dmesg' and it display those message at the last info.

How to install this device so that it is loaded at the boot process ?

My modules.conf is like this :

alias eth0 8139too
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias char-major-81 bttv

My xawtv was also display nothing, only a black background and some colour dots in the upper section of the video screen.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot

Tthis is the dmesg result after the cat command :

..........
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
i2c-core.o: i2c core module
i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
bttv: driver version 0.7.96 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650 Host
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:06.0, irq: 9, latency: 32, mmio: 0xcd101000
bttv0: detected: Pinnacle PCTV [card=39], PCI subsystem ID is 11bd:0012
bttv0: using: BT878(Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Ra) [card=39,autodetected]
i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0.
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: miro: id=31 tuner=4 radio=no stereo=no
bttv0: using tuner=4
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951)
i2c-core.o: driver generic i2c audio driver registered.
i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
tuner: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]
tuner: chip found @ 0xc0
bttv0: i2c attach [client=NoTuner,ok]
i2c-core.o: client [NoTuner] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok

20th November 2006

Card: Pinnacle Systems miro video PCTV
Country: Australia
Distro: Red Hat Linux 9

Solution:

#Step 1 : Examine your PCTV card.

#Identify the card manufactuer/type/model
(eg. Pinnacle systems miro video PCTV)

That will allow you to establish the card number
for bttv.

#Identify the tuner type.
(eg. Temic PAL (4002 FH5))
The tuner module is the large metal can on the card.
Usually there is a sticker on the top of the tuner
identifying the type/manufacturer and part/model number.
This will allow you to establish the tuner number
for bttv.

#Lookup the card and tuner details in the Linux bttv
Howto document. (There is a copy of the document at
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BTTV/index.html)

eg. card = 1 (miro pctv)
tuner = 0 (Temic PAL (4002 FH5))

#Step 2 : Edit /etc/modules.conf and save the file !

....
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options tuner type=0
options bttv pll=1 radio=0 card=1
....

#Step 3 : Test with xawtv
(eg. Select <your country>, <eg. PAL>, Television)
$ xawtv

#Step 4 : Enjoy the results :)


Notes:

*If at first you don't succeed then try try again.
select the next most resonable settings for card
and tuner. Remember to save the file modules.conf.
Stop and start XAWTV.

*Check the pll (phase lock loop) setting value

*To check if your card is recognised by xawtv
try issuing the command xawtv - hwscan

*To save on messy cabling try looping the audio out
from the PCTV card (4pin flat connector) to the
aux in (4pin flat connector) on your systems sound
card using a standard CDROM audio flylead.

Hope that helps someone.

Best regards

Chris